Advice regarding corporate structure and functional matters, including state law implications for same; and

Transactional matters such as mergers and acquisitions of prepaid card issuers and marketers and spin-offs of prepaid issuance and marketing functions.

Day-to-day prepaid card matters are primarily handled by the following attorneys within the firm’s Financial Institutions Group with extensive and varied experience drawn from work in the private sector:

Karol Sparks, who was the Chair of the American Bar Association’s 1,500 member Banking Law Committee from 1998-2002, has over 30 years of experience handling the regulatory matters and corporate activities of financial institutions, with special emphasis on the distribution of annuities, insurance, mutual funds and prepaid cards through banks, thrifts and credit unions. She is the author of the treatise, Insurance Activities of Banks, which was originally published in 1998 and is updated annually, and serves as adjunct professor at Wake Forest University School of Law and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Center for Banking and Finance at the University of North Carolina Law School at Chapel Hill.